Roberto Luongo had 25 saves which was enough to hold off the Wild 2-1 and give the Canucks their 6th straight win. Luongo has been splitting time in the goal with Cory Schneider. Tonight's performance helped Luongo lower his goals against average to 1.45 second only to Ottawa's Craig Anderson.
Jannik Hansen and Kevin Bieksa each scored for Vancouver and Devin Setoguchi had the Wild's only goal....

The Wild came away with a much needed win on what would be Mikko Koivu's 500th career game. The Wild winning for the first time in 5 games while on a road trip.
Wild Goal Niklas Backstrom was great at goal with 23 saves. Kyle Brodziak scored in regulation to tie the game at 1 a piece, Jiri Hudler scored for the Flames.
In the shootout it was Koivu who came through to score the game winner, cle...

After a bit of a rocky start for the Western Conference finalists, the Coyotes have taken their second consecutive win at home beating the Minnesota Wild by a score of 2-1. This win solidifies Mike Smith's shutout of division rival Dallas just two nights ago.
The Coyotes got off to a hot start against the Wild putting 17 shots on goal in the opening period, however they were only able to put 1 ...

The Wild beat the Chicago Blackhawks giving them their first loss of the season last night in MN.
Chicago, 6-0 going into last night's game, were handed their first loss by a Wild roster that was upgraded with some big name free agents in the off-season. The only other team that was 6-0 were the San Jose Sharks, . This game was seen as a test for that new roster. MN held up well.
MN starte...

The Wild officially opened training camp yesterday. Although the players could skate around last week after both the NHL and NHLPA signed off on the new collective bargaining agreement, this week marks the first time that the coaching staff could interact with players and be on the ice with them.
Coach Mike Yeo has his work cut out, he last 6 days to get his new players acclimated to a new sys...

The Pacific Division is jam-packed right now. Phoenix, Dallas, San Jose, and Los Angeles are all within a point of each other. Depending on the last 4-5 games, each team has a chance to win the division or miss the playoffs. So, understandably it's nervous times for Kings fans. (more…)

PHX – 2 CGY – 1 F/OT
The Phoenix Coyotes put their three-game winning streak on the line when they hosted the Calgary Flames Thursday night. Phoenix is quickly moving up in the standings in a tight Western Conference race and began the night tied with the Minnesota Wild for 8th place. Calgary, playing their second road game in 24 hours, was coming off a big win in San Jose and was jus...

The Devils took it to the Wild after the first ten minutes of last night's game. But that wasn't enough.
When Zach Parise scored on a beautiful deflection just three minutes into the game it seemed like last night would be a great night. Five minutes later down 3-1 it seemed like it would be a disastrous game. Both initial reactions were wrong.
Brodeur was chased from the game allowing three go...

During the NHL lockout of 2004-2005, Brendan Shannahan and the NHL’s competition committee got together at a rink in suburban Toronto to run scrimmages and experiment with several potential rule changes. The purpose was to investigate ways to get away from the New Jersey/Minnesota style clutch-and-grab sleepwalk hockey that killed the NHL’s ratings and drove defensive centers’ salaries ov...

It seems hard to believe that it's been a full year since we last heard Taylor versus Tyler…Seguin versus Hall. Who would Edmonton pick? Could Boston actually trade up to get the #1 overall? We all know Edmonton took Hall, the Bruins took Seguin and last year is officially history. Anyway, onto Minnesota and the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
The Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins (I do love sayin...

In fairness to the article title the Dallas Stars could easily complain about a couple calls not going there way when they could have, however it basically looked like Referee Dennis Larue was on the take this entire game. Six times Larue held pucks in the Flames zone on clearing attempts, and called a couple just god awful penalties against Calgary which were just unfathomable.
Getting back to...

Although they’ve gotten off to as slow a start as possible to the 18 game stretch run that I put on the Rangers before they dropped their game to the Sabres, it’s time to either get back to being optimistic or staying optimistic.
With 17 games to go and the season still very much so in the hands of these New York Rangers its time to start believing that they’re gonna make a strong ru...